History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, including Lynnfield ...

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Miscellaneous Notes. 249
dant reason for the repression of any feeling of sectional pride.
Yet we must maintain that old Lynn has been a favored place,
favored in the high scriptural sense of being oppressed neither
by poverty nor riches.
Ancient Documents. Two or three years ago, Mr. James
W. Webber, of Lowell street, in repairing a piece of old furniture,
found, pressed in back of a drawer from which they had evidently
fallen, two or three old, time-stained papers.
them, as many would have done,
Instead of burning
he kindly handed them to the
writer, to whom one at least proved of much interest, as it was a
receipt written by an ancestor, a specimen of whose handwriting
he had long desired to possess.
Another, was the quaint public document that follows in which
many who are interested in our local history, will recognize some
old, familiar names
Essex, ss. To Joseph Newhall, Constable, In Lynn, March 3d, 1755,
Greeting :
In his majesties name you are Required to warn the Several Persons here
after named, to attend att the house of Benjamin Bowdens on friday next, at two
of the Clock in the afternoon, in order to take the oath to there office thay wair
Chose to Serve in, this Day, and make Return of this your Doings, fail not.
By order of the Select men.
Joseph Fuller, town Clerk.
Nathaniel Bancroft,
Survar of high ways, Tithen man also.
Amos & Joseph newhalls,
fence viuer.
David Gowan, Jur. &
Abraham welman
J
hog
The document is labelled, " 1755. A warrant to warn Town
officers." And on the back, besides the imperfect return, appears
this record :
" At a meeting of the Select men, April 7,
1755, apinted Locker newhall, hog Reeve and Joseph Skinner,
hog Reeve." This " Locker newhall," was the father of the
noted Landlord Jacob Newhall, who, during the Revolution, kept
the famous old Anchor Tavern — at that time under another
name — on the Boston road, in what is now East Saugus. The
Joseph Fuller, who was Town Clerk, was chosen to the office
that year, 1755, succeeding his kinsman John Fuller. The
Fullers were farmers, and the family seat was at the westerly
end of Waterhill, the present Cottage street running through